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When couples struggle with focus versus breadth in charitable giving

My partner and I have been giving small amounts to lots of different charities because it feels good to support various causes, but we read that concentrating our donations would be more effective, and now we're paralyzed because choosing just a few organizations feels like we're abandoning all the others we care about.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are learning that effective giving might require difficult trade-offs they weren't prepared to make.

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